Acts 16:27

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Wha the keper of the preson waked out of slepe, and sawe the preson dores open, he drue out his swerde, and wolde haue kylled him selfe: for he thoughte ye presoners had bene fled.

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  • Acts 12:19 : 19 Whan Herode had called for him, and founde him not, he caused the kepers to be examyned, and commaunded the to be caried awaye, and he wente downe fro Iewry vnto Cesarea, and there abode.
  • Acts 16:23-24 : 23 And whan they had beaten them sore, they cast the in preson, and commaunded the iayler, to kepe them diligetly. 24 Which whan he had receaued soch commaundement, he cast the in to the ynner preson, and put their fete in the stockes.
  • Judg 9:54 : 54 Then Abimelech in all the haist, called the seruaunt that bare his wapen, and sayde vnto him: Drawe out thy swerde, and kyll me, that it be not sayde of me: A woman hath slayne him. Then his seruaunt thrust him thorow, and he dyed.
  • 1 Sam 31:4-5 : 4 Then sayde Saul vnto his wapebearer: Drawe out thy swerde, and thrust it thorow me, that these vncircumcised come not and slaie me, and make a laughinge stocke of me. Neuertheles his wapenbearer wolde not, for he was sore afrayed. Then toke Saul ye swerde, and fell therin. 5 Now whan his wapenbearer sawe that Saul was deed, he fell also vpon his swerde, and dyed with him.
  • 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 Whan Achitophel sawe that his coucell wente not forth, he sadled his asse, gat him vp, and wete home in to his cite and put his house to poynte, and hanged him selfe, and dyed, and was buried in his fathers graue.
  • 1 Kgs 16:18 : 18 But whan Simri sawe yt the cite shulde be wonne, he wente in to the palace in the kynges house, & brent it with ye kynges house, & dyed
  • Matt 27:5 : 5 And he cast the syluer pens in the teple, and gat him awaye, and wente and hanged him self.

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  • Acts 16:23-26
    4 verses
    83%

    23And whan they had beaten them sore, they cast the in preson, and commaunded the iayler, to kepe them diligetly.

    24Which whan he had receaued soch commaundement, he cast the in to the ynner preson, and put their fete in the stockes.

    25But at mydnight prayed Paul and Sylas, and praysed God. And the presoners herde them.

    26Sodenly was there a greate earth quake, so that the foundacions of the preson were shaken. And immediatly were all the dores open, & all their bondes lowsed

  • Acts 16:28-30
    3 verses
    82%

    28But Paul cryed loude, and sayde: Do thy self no harme, for we are all here.

    29He called for a lighte, and sprange in, and trembled, and fell at the fete of Paul and Sylas,

    30and broughte them out, and sayde: Syrs, what must I do, to be saued?

  • Acts 5:22-23
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    77%

    22The mynisters came and founde them not in the preson, came agayne, and tolde,

    23and sayde:The preson founde we shut with all diligence, and the kepers stondinge without before the dores: but wha we had opened, we founde noman therin.

  • Acts 16:35-40
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    76%

    35And whan it was daye, the officers of the cite sent mynisters, and sayde: Let those men go.

    36And the keper of the preson tolde this sayenge vnto Paul: The officers haue sent hither, that ye shulde be lowse. Now therfore get you hece, and go in peace.

    37But Paul sayde vnto them: They haue beaten vs openly vncondempned (where as we are yet Romaynes) and haue cast vs in preson, and shulde they now thrust vs out preuely? Not so, but let them come them selues, and brynge vs out.

    38The mynisters tolde these wordes vnto the officers. And they feared, whan they herde that they were Romaynes,

    39and came and besoughte them, and prayed the to departe out of the cite.

    40Then wente they out of the preson, and entred in to the house of Lydia. And whan they had sene the brethren and comforted them, they departed.

  • Acts 12:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5And Peter was kepte in the preson But prayer was made without ceassinge of the congregacion, vnto God for him.

    6And whan Herode wolde haue broughte him out vnto the people, in the same nighte slepte Peter betwene two soudiers, bounde with two cheynes. And the kepers before the dore kepte the preson.

    7And beholde, the angell of the LORDE was there presente, and a lighte shyned in the habitacion, and he smote Peter on the syde, and waked him vp, and sayde: Aryse vp quyckly. And the cheynes fell of from his hondes.

  • Acts 5:19
    74%

    19But the angell of ye LORDE by night opened the preson dores, and brought the out, and sayde:

  • Acts 27:42-43
    2 verses
    73%

    42The soudyers councell was to kyll ye presoners, lest eny of them whan he had swymmed out, shulde flye awaye.

    43But the vndercaptayne wyllinge to saue Paul, keped them from their purpose, and commaunded that they which coulde swymme, shulde cast them selues first in to the see, and escape vnto londe:

  • Acts 28:16
    71%

    16But wha we came to Rome, the vndercaptayne delyuered the presoners to ye chefe captayne. As for Paul, he had leue to byde alone with one soudyer that kepte him.

  • Acts 21:30-33
    4 verses
    70%

    30And all the cite was moued, and the people ranne together. And they toke Paul, and drue him out off the temple, and forth with the dores were shut to.

    31But whan they wete aboute to kyll him, tydinges came to the chefe captayne of the company, that all Ierusalem was moued.

    32Which immediatly toke soudyers and captaynes vnto him, and ranne in amoge them. Whan they sawe the captayne and the soudyers, they lefte smytinge of Paul.

    33Whan the captayne came nye, he toke him, and commaunded him to be bounde with two cheynes, and axed what he was, and what he had done.

  • Acts 12:16-18
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    69%

    16But Peter contynued knockinge. Whan they opened the dore, they sawe him, and were astonnyed.

    17But he beckened vnto them with the hande, to holde their peace, & tolde them, how the LORDE had broughte him out of the preson. And he sayde: Shewe this vnto Iames, and to the brethren. And he departed, and wete in to another place.

    18Whan it was daye, there was not a litle a doo amoge the soudyers, what was become of Peter.

  • Acts 12:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10Neuertheles they wente thorow the first and seconde watch, and came to the yron gate, that ledeth vnto the cite, which opened to the by his awne acorde. And they wente out, and passed thorow one strete, and immediatly the angell departed from him.

    11And whan Peter was come to himself, he sayde: Now I knowe of a trueth, that ye LORDE hath sent his angell, and delyuered me out of the honde of Herode, and from all the waytinge for of the people of the Iewes.

  • Acts 16:19
    68%

    19But wha hir master and mastresse sawe that the hope of their vauntage was gone, they toke Paul and Sylas, drue them in to the market place before ye rulers,

  • Acts 27:30
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    30Whan the shipmen were aboute to flye out of the shippe, and let downe the bote in to the see, (vnder a coloure as though they wolde cast ankers out of the fore shippe)

  • Matt 28:4
    68%

    4But ye watch me were troubled for feare of him, and became as though they were deed.

  • Acts 23:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10But whan the discension was greate, ye vpper captayne feared, that Paul shulde haue bene pluckte a sonder of them, and commaunded the soudyers to go downe, and to take him from them, and to brynge him in to the castell.

    11But in the nighte folowinge, the LORDE stode by him, and sayde: Be of good cheare Paul, for as thou hast testified of me at Ierusalem so must thou testifye at Rome also.

  • Gen 39:22-23
    2 verses
    67%

    22so that he committed all the presoners of the preson vnto his hades: that what so euer were done, might be done by him.

    23For the officer of the preson sawe, yt the LORDE was with him in all yt was vnder his handes, and that what so euer he dyd, the LORDE made it to come prosperously to passe.

  • Acts 17:9
    67%

    9And whan they had receaued a sufficient answere of Iason and of the other, they let them go.

  • Acts 26:30-31
    2 verses
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    30And whan he had spoken this, the kynge rose vp, and the Debyte, and Bernice, and they that sat with them,

    31and wente asyde, and talked together, and sayde: This man hath done nothinge that is worthy of death or of bondes.

  • Acts 22:29
    67%

    29The straight waye departed from him, they that shulde haue examyned him. And ye chefe captayne was afrayed, whan he knewe that he was a Romayne, and because he had bounde him.

  • Acts 27:32
    67%

    32Then the soudyers cut of the rope from the bote, and let it fall.

  • Acts 28:18
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    18which wha they had examyned me, wolde haue let me go, for so moch as there was no cause of death i me.

  • Acts 9:24
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    24But it was tolde Saul, that they layed wayte for him. And they wayted at ye gates daye & night, that they might kyll him.

  • Judg 16:20
    66%

    20And she sayde vnto him: The Philistynes vpon the Samson. Now wha he awoke out of his slepe, he thoughte: I wil go forth as I haue done aforetyme, & ease my selfe, & knewe not yt the LORDE was departed from him.

  • Acts 18:9
    66%

    9The LORDE spake vnto Paul by a vision in ye nighte: Be not afrayed, but speake, and holde not thy peace,

  • Acts 22:26
    66%

    26Whan the vndercaptayne herde that, he wete to the vpper captayne, and tolde him, and sayde? What wilt thou do? This man is a Romayne.

  • Gen 39:20
    66%

    20Then his master toke him, and put him in the preson, wherin the kinges presoners laie. And there he laye in preson.

  • Acts 26:21
    66%

    21For this cause the Iewes toke me in the temple, and wente aboute to kyll me.